Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other clear major factor was that a result of public consultation er and clearly this was an important consideration when members came to choose the route , that seventy percent of those consulted favoured the outer northern route , the blue route . |
| 2 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 3 | He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster . |
| 4 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 5 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 6 | There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank . |
| 7 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 8 | Within four minutes Simmons had taken his tally to five and an own goal by Smott had given Alborne an insurmountable 8–0 lead . |
| 9 | I would 've picked a good one . ’ |
| 10 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 11 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 12 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 13 | What is dysfunctional is expenditure in the form of social expenses on system maintenance , either through legitimation or coercion , although discussion has emphasized the former . |
| 14 | However , like Welsh national consciousness itself , the University has emphasized the cultural , linguistic and academic aspects of the country 's life at the expense of the vocational and technological . |
| 15 | Eric Voegelin has emphasized the fundamental difference between what he calls the ‘ cosmological ’ civilizations , which presupposed the political symbolization of the cosmos typified by Babylonia with its epic of Marduk , and ‘ eschatological ’ civilizations such as the Hebrew — but first exemplified by the Iranian — based on the religion of Zarathustra . |
| 16 | The end-of-term jollity was illustrative of the relaxed atmosphere that has pervaded the final week of the Liberal Democrat election drive — a product not merely of the light-headedness of exhaustion but also of the undoubted success of what has been a well-judged campaign . |
| 17 | His is an angry , radical critique of the changes taking place , arguing that market ideology has pervaded the Scottish universities to the extent that their work has lost its breadth , its pace , its ability to question and its identity . |
| 18 | One used to be able to listen to light classical music on Radio 2 on a Sunday morning , but that has disappeared , and Radio 4 's topsy-turvy ‘ streamlining ’ has wrecked the listening habits of years . |
| 19 | Manager Lennie Lawrence has delayed a final decision but he can not take a risk for a game that could clinch Boro automatic promotion . |
| 20 | Manager Ray Hankin has no injury worries but has delayed a final choice . |
| 21 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 22 | For example , is it not true that the Roosecote project has received a substantial amount of capital from NORWEB but that the deal has been kept secret ? |
| 23 | The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield . |
| 24 | The sad story of the decline of the African elephant mainly due to ivory poaching has received a great deal of much-needed publicity . |
| 25 | Communal living has received a great deal of publicity during the last twenty years , partly as the result of the experiments with alternative lifestyles widely advocated by members of the middle classes in the 1960s . |
| 26 | A second view that a scientific theory is a complex structure of some kind is one that has received a great deal of attention in recent years . |
| 27 | Most recently , the controversy surrounding the use of Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFC 's ) and the damage they are doing to the Ozone layer has received a great deal of publicity . |
| 28 | The latter class has received a great deal of attention recently because homologous sequences have been found as domains contained within larger DNA binding proteins such as the nucleolar transcription factor hUBF ( 3 ) , mitochondrial transcription factor 1 ( 4 ) , sex-determining region Y ( SRY ) ( 5 , 6 ) , lymphoid enhancer binding factor I ( LEF-1 ) ( 7 ) , a T-cell specific transcription factor TCF-1α ( 8 ) , and the yeast autonomously replicating sequence factor ABF2 ( 9 ) . |
| 29 | In haulage contracts there will be little doubt as to whether each party has received a worthwhile benefit ! |
| 30 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |